Did the first civilization start in africa?

Question

if so doesn't that make everyone in the world no matter their race or skin color african?

Answer 1

No it didn't.  While homo sapiens first occurred in Africa, civilized people first developed their civilizations in the Near East.

Points for Africa: the longest continuous civilization was that of ancient Egypt.

Answer 2

The Euphrates River (and about four others in the vicinity) is mentioned in the book of Genesis so, technically, everyone in the world are African descendants.

Is black all the colors in the spectrum combined? Go figure.

Answer 3

No, it started with farming, in the middle East. The Australopithecines evolved into the genus Homo in Africa, and our predecessors lost most of their body hair, and became darker of skin. We can all legitimately claim to have African roots.

Answer 4

Many researches suggest that human origin happened in Africa. And I saw in a recent documentry that a group of scientists have studied DNA of numerous human races to evalutate any pattern, and from those results they have come to the decision that our oldest ancestors are a small tribal group in Africa. Unfortunately I don't remember that tribe's name now. Anyway theose people share many morphological features with all human races. They got asian like eyes. African like hair, and South east  Asian (Indian, Sri Lankan etc) like skin colour and some coccasian like features as well. I was really amused to see the program. Yes, I agreee with what you say, we all are related and our fartherest ancestor is an African. I wish people come to understand it and start treating all races and nations and ethnicities with respect.

Answer 5

Ok, first of all, whether the first civilization was in Africa or not is not relevant to whether people are African nowadays.  My direct ancestors a couple of generations back came from Ireland and Finland, but I am not Irish or Finnish, I'm American. If I have any African ancestors, they go back so many generations that the word "African" doesn't describe my heritage or nationality in any language. So no, I'm not African. In fact, the usual usage of the term describes people who were born in Africa. Even descendants of the African-born in America are called African-Americans, not Africans.

  Second, as some of the prior answers pointed out, there's evidence that the first genetically modern people originated in Africa (they were apparently the southern population  of h. sapiens heidelbergensis, whose nothern population eventually died out).  But less reason to believe the first civilizations were there.

  The mentions of the Mesopotamians seem to ignore Egyptian civilization, which is African. I don't think it's known for sure which was a "civilization" first.

    However that may also be a moot question because what's considered the "first" civilization is based only on the available evidence. There may have been earlier ones whose remains have yet to be discovered. I think there's a good chance the Black Sea, which was a freshwater lake until a catastrophe connected it with the Mediterranean a little before 5000 b.c., was host to some kind of civilization. This would fit in with the "flood" stories that survived as legend in Mesopotamia millennia later, written down in the Epic of Gilgamesh and later the Torah.  Robert Ballard, the deep-sea explorer, recently found signs of human habitation around its now-submerged ancient shoreline.

Answer 6

North Africa, to be more exact.  Somewhere in the eastern part of Turkey.

Just as Genesis recorded 3,500 years ago.

What an odd coincidence that Moses knew that!

Answer 7

although many anthropologists agree that human kind was originated in Africa, first civilization was considered mesopotamian in middle east. Homosapience used a basic stone tools and fire and fisrt appeared 2 million ago but first metal using technology appeared 100000 years ago in Mesopotamia and Hwangha area in Asia.

Answer 8

Not necessarily the first civilization, but the first people came out of Africa, around 50,000 yrs ago, and migrated all over the world. So yes, we are all the same race, and technically, African in origin.

Answer 9

i forget what the show was called but it was on PBS video and this genealogist tracked the migration patterns of the worlds people to try to find out where the first people came from and also to find out how the worlds people arrived in the areas they did. he ended up dead ending at this African bushman tribe around Ethiopia. but through DNA he found they they are the oldest human bloodline and from there people made their way to India and then to Asia, then to Europe and Russia and Siberia. after that people made their way to i think Greenland, Iceland and Canada and then to America and south America and so on and so on. the oldest bloodline was found in Africa though. sorry i cant remember the documentary name but i hope this helps in some way.

Answer 10

We are all related to one another - one way or the other.

And yes it would.

Latest report from researchers claim that the "peopling' of America was done by no more than 17 different persons.

Hard to believe or even think about isn't it?